http://www.myweb20blog.com Attempting to Understand All That Is Web 2.0 Sun, 15 Feb 2009 03:05:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en According to an interview with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone in the British trade magazine Marketing a few days ago, the micro-blogging site could be planning to charge companies for using the site. As Stone said: "We are noticing more companies using Twitter and individuals following them. We can identify ways to make ... http://www.myweb20blog.com/2009/02/13/twitter-to-try-and-make-money/ The idea of JobAngels is so simple that I feel stupid I didn't come up with it myself. It started on Twitter, where the person behind it posted this: "Was thinking that if each of us helped just 1 person find a job, we could start making a dent in unemployment. You ... http://www.myweb20blog.com/2009/02/09/the-beauty-of-jobangels/ I was just looking through my Mashable feed and came across an article about Tweetube, which allows Twitter users to share video. When I initially read this, I thought that meant the video would be embedded into the person's Twitter page - and thus all that person's followers. That had ... http://www.myweb20blog.com/2009/02/07/twitter-meets-youtube-millions-rejoice/ Last week, I was reading a chat session by the Sports Guy, Bill Simmons. I've been reading Simmons regularly since a friend introduced me to his columns back in 2001. Back in 2007, he began doing podcasts as well. During the chat session, he mentioned his feelings on what he ... http://www.myweb20blog.com/2009/02/04/the-future-of-podcasts/ Since starting this blog a whopping two days ago, I've been thinking about who reads and writes blogs. My assumption is that people in their 20s and 30s are the main contributors to the blogosphere, and probably the main readers as well. I would guess I read between five to 10 ... http://www.myweb20blog.com/2009/01/29/age-and-the-blogosphere/ I was surfing through LinkedIn the other day and saw this article mentioned in one of the groups I belong to. The author, Renee Lemley, talks about her trifecta of social media networking - Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter - and what she thinks people can get out of each venue. It's ... http://www.myweb20blog.com/2009/01/28/social-networking-convergence/ We're one week into Barack Obama's presidency and I'm realizing that his taking over for Bush has an interesting, perhaps even fundamental, parallel with the beginnings of Web 2.0. According to the Wikipedia entry on Web 2.0, Tim O'Reilly (who helped coin the phrase) was using the term in referring to: "the ... http://www.myweb20blog.com/2009/01/27/change-we-can-believe-in/